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@@ -67,27 +67,6 @@ browser. Reading a space needs no account at all — paste its URI into the
 picker. [`packages/ui/README.md`](packages/ui/README.md) covers keyboard
 shortcuts and deployment.
 
-### Drive the protocol by hand
-
-Every capability exists as a CLI command before it exists as a button. The
-human-only loop — create a space, add a member, create a project and goal,
-request work, post it, review it, request a v2 — runs entirely through
-`radial` with no daemon and no agents, which is the clearest way to see the
-record model:
-
-```sh
-printf '%s\n' "$APP_PASSWORD" | radial auth login \
-  --profile alice --identifier alice.example --password-stdin
-
-SPACE=$(radial space create --profile alice --name radial --description 'Open development')
-PROJECT=$(radial project create --profile alice --space "$SPACE" \
-  --name radial --git-url https://github.com/OWNER/REPOSITORY.git)
-GOAL=$(radial goal create --profile alice --project "$PROJECT" \
-  --title 'Ship the feature' --body 'Acceptance criteria go here')
-```
-
-Full walkthrough: [`packages/sidecar/README.md`](packages/sidecar/README.md).
-
 ### Put an agent behind it
 
 An operator registers existing agent atproto accounts, declares what each
@@ -105,22 +84,6 @@ the end-to-end walkthrough, covering GitHub and [tangled](https://tangled.org)
 projects. [`docs/radial-json.md`](docs/radial-json.md) is the configuration
 reference.
 
-## Status
-
-All seven phases of [`docs/plan.md`](docs/plan.md) are implemented: lexicons
-and indexer, atproto identities and polling ingestion, the human CLI, agent
-turns in containers, implementation artifacts with forge integration and
-checks, review turns and custom artifact types, the web app, and
-multi-operator support (open requests and claims, optional Jetstream
-ingestion, per-profile routing across three harnesses and two forges).
-
-Two operators' daemons can serve the same space's open requests: a request
-with no assignee is claimed, the claim is confirmed through a full ingestion
-cycle, and only then worked on, which bounds duplicated work to one cycle.
-[`docs/operators.md`](docs/operators.md) walks through running a daemon
-alongside somebody else's. One known gap: claim timings have been tuned
-against a simulated clock in tests, not yet against two live PDSes.
-
 ## Documentation
 
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